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Are you a parent who drinks too much?

Take our test to find out whether your drinking is a harmless way to unwind or dangerous for you and your children

Dr Cecilia D’Felice

October 13 2012, 1:01am, The Times

Louise Mensch discovered a very different attitude to alcohol in the USTimes photographer, Christopher Lane

Do you look forward to “wine o’clock”; that time when the kids are in bed and you can finally relax with a glass of wine? Don’t relax too much. Parents, particularly middle class ones, are putting the wellbeing of themselves and their children at risk by the amount they drink, according to a report published last week on behalf of the charity 4Children. Two million parents said they drank alcohol every day. And almost one in five said that they drank more than they did before they had children. This so-called “normal use” could be the first sign of addiction. Another study, from Alcohol Concern, has calculated that baby boomers’ alcohol abuse costs the NHS ten times more than than young people.